Born 30 August 1940, Merit Hemmingson is a Swedish organist, composer and singer. She became nationally known in the late 1960s for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music. Already in the mid-1950s, Merit Hemmingson played piano in various jazz-influenced dance orchestras in Jämtland. After graduating from wargentinskolan in Östersund, she moved to Stockholm in 1959 and played there often at Nalen. After a trip to the United States, she formed her own quintet, Merit H.